Colonel Blimp produced two New Music Shorts for the BBC to coincide with the recent Electric Proms – both produced, in fact, by Sarah Tognazzi. Here’s the one directed by editor and part-time director of videos, comedy shorts and skate vids Ninian Doff.
Metronomy’s On Dancefloors is the track used for Ninian’s cute film starring Rich [...]

To celebrate the launch of the new Samsung i8910 HD mobile phone, Future Shorts in association with Samsung Mobile have commissioned four top directors – Mike Figgis, Phil Sansom & Olly Williams, Rankin & Chris and James Lees – to make films in quickly turned-round short films shot in HD.
Watch all four films and cast [...]

The deadline for entries for this year’s straight 8 – the annual Super 8mm film challenge organised by Ed Sayers – is now in less than one month’s time.
straight 8 is the film competition where entrants make a film on a single cartridge of Super 8mm film, then deliver the cartridge before it is even [...]

Gymnasts are drawn skywards from the city by airship tractor beams in Jasmin Jodry’s film Star Games, which combines live action with animation, rotoscoping and archive footage.
The retro-futuristic-styled film was one of four created as art of the 2008 Getty Images Short & Sweet film challenge, in which the filmmakers (Laurie Hill, Big Red Button, [...]

ThinkSync Films, the competition where filmmakers can use music supplied by independent labels to enhance their short films, has announced a shortlist of six films for its 2008 prize.
The films are Job No. 2145 by Peter King and David Procter, Live Before You Die by Tom Lloyd, Rohypnol Love by Robert Hindle, Small Things by [...]

Following a record entry of 175 films for this year’s event, straight 8 will be premiering four of those entries on primetime British television this week for the first time. And in a now-traditional occasion, a baker’s dozen of the very best entries will be shown at a premiere screening during the Cannes Film Festival [...]